 It looks like the most recent post on Dan Wilcox's blog (about low attendance at the latest "Community of Writers" event sponsored by the Hudson Valley Writers Guild) has touched off a big discussion on the state of poetry and spoken word in the area. There are a lot of different ideas and thoughts on the local poetry scene and open mics as a whole. As of this writing, there are 25 comments on the issue.
Click here to read the post and the comments and feel free to add your own to the mix. After reading the comments and even adding some of my own, it got me thinking about a greater issue that I have been dealing with for a few months now since I started working on a project for OTHER:. The issue is, what is poetry to you? So, I am going to open it up to you, the poets, to let me know what poetry is to you. Go to the comments and speak your mind. Labels: open mic, poetry events, workshops
 The featured readers for the November open mics have been announced. Below is information on all of the upcoming readings. The Monday Night Open Mic at the Colony Café (Colony Café, 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock) takes place every Monday night starting at 7:00PM with and open mic before and after the featured readers. All events include an open mic of poetry/prose/performance hosted by Phillip Levine.
Monday, November 5th, 2007: Resident Poets, Musicians, and Artists from Northeast Center for Special Care
A select group of poets, musicians and artists from Northeast Center for Special Care will be performing original music and poetry, and exhibiting original paintings, prints and drawings at the Colony Cafe on Monday night, November 5th. The Northeast Center for Special Care is an innovative long-term care, rehabilitation, recovery and community reentry program for individuals recovering from multiple disabilities acquired from complex injuries, mainly traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries. Monday, November 12th, 2007: Efrayim Levenson and Deborah Emin
Efrayim Levenson's poems have been published in Above Water, ArtVoice, Bflo Journal, Blatherskite, The Buffalo News Poetry Page, Earth's Daughters, Foist, The Grin, Medicinal Purposes Literary Review, Pure Light, Swift Kick, and Tempus Fugit. His new chapbook, Dances With Tears, published in March 2007 by Poets Wear Prada, was a featured selection in Poets House's 2007 Showcase. More information can be found at http://efrayimlevenson.blogspot.com, http://timessquareshoutout.blogspot.com, and www.chabadrego.org/poetry Deborah Emin is the author of the novel, Scags at 7. Set in the 1950s suburban world outside of Chicago, the story is told by the seven-year-old Scags about her summer vacation. Believing she is about to embark on a lazy, fun-filled couple of months, it is anything but that as her beloved Pops falls apart and with him the world as she knew it. Sample pages of the novel are available on the publisher's website: www.kedziepress.com. More than you may want to know about Deborah's other work is on her website: www.deborahemin.com. Monday, November 19th, 2007: Tim Verhaegen, Patricia Martin and Gus Mancini
Tim Verhaegen was raised on Long Island. He has been living in the Capital District since 1980. He is a member of the Every Other Thursday Poetry group in Voorheesville and the Armchair Poets in Troy. His poetry appears in Many Waters and Poetry Don't Pump Gas, an anthology created by the Voorheesville poets. His poetry is inspired by his Long Island childhood, his gay identity, his insatiable curiosity about the workings of people, and the stories of the people that surround him. Wordsmiths Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, David Gray and Melanie Safka are his lyrical heroes. He has featured at nearly every poetry open mic in the capital district. He will be featuring at Caffe Lena in Saratoga November 7th. He loves the spoken word, he chooses his most personal, intimate poetry for the spoken word experience. http://www.thursdaypoets.blogspot.com/ Join the irrepressible duo Mancini and Martin to experience some live IN the Moment sharing-- a rich aura/aural tapestry of original music and evocative words, selected from their upcoming same-titled cd. Monday, November 26th, 2007: Cate McNider and Cheryl A. Rice
Cate McNider is an artist in her own residence in West Hurley four days out of the week. Originally from North Carolina, she migrated to NYC after a two year stint studying acting and modern dance in London. While auditioning and acting, the writing became more satisfying and creatively expedient. She has read her work at St. Marks Church, NYC, The Knitting Factory and various Brooklyn café’s. Cate’s work has been published in several journals, The Westmoreland News, VA, and at www.thelisteningbody.com. In 1990, ”Guardian’s Trust” was made into a song by the late Michael Hedges on his Road to Return album. Cate continues to write lyrics, collaborating with the musician/lyricist & Oscar nominee Ramsey McLean of New Orleans. Their song ‘Straydog Mountain’ is a hit. A collection of her poems is on the way. Born on Long Island in 1962, Cheryl A. Rice has been reading and writing for as long as she can remember. She has had both poems and prose published in Chronogram, The Country and Abroad, The Florida Review, The Gathering of the Tribes, Home Planet News, Mangrove, Other:, The Temple/El Templo, Ulster Magazine, and The Woodstock Times, and online at www.albanypoets.com, www.poetrypoetry.com, and www.thehiddencity.com. She has lived in New York's Hudson Valley for over 25 years. For further information about the Monday Night Open Mic or possible bookings contact Phillip Levine at pprod@mindspring.com. For information about the Colony Café contact Mariann Harrigfeld at mariann@colonycafe.com or call 845-679-5342. Labels: Colony Cafe, open mic, poetry events, Woodstock
 This one day workshop will take place on Saturday, October 27 is sponsored by the Lake George Arts Project. The workshop will be held at the Arts Project Courthouse Gallery located at the side entrance of the County Courthouse Building on Main St. in Lake George Village from 10:00a.m. - 2:30p.m. with a short break for lunch. There is a $20 fee. Call the Arts Project at 518-668-2616 to register. Led by Susan Jefts.
This workshop will use poetry with autumnal themes to look at how poetic images and rhythms speak to the less explored places in us. Weather permitting, some time will be spent outside by the lake, observing and responding to autumn's sounds, scents and images. There will be opportunities to write and share. This workshop should prove stimulating for both beginner and advanced writers, of both poetry and prose. Labels: workshops
 Welcome back to the Dan Wilcox Open Mic Commentary Round-Up. This week we have Dan's comments on Shaun Baxter's open mic at the Night Sky Cafe and a special report from Miss Mona about the Allen Fisher reading at the UAG.
I asked my old friend, Miss Mona, to cover this event for me while I was in Philadelphia. Miss Mona used to comment on the gossip scene in Albany years back & has just been growing old since. The monthly open mic at the NightSky Cafe on Union St. in Schenectady, with our host Shaun Baxter. I note that Shaun seems to have responded to fact that he is not the shortest open mic host by producing the smallest open mic flyer, just over 3x4 inches. He started us off with Raymond Carver's "Where Water Comes Together with Other Water", then challenged us to parody William Carlos Williams' "This is just to say...", you know, the plums-in-the-fridg poem. Be sure to check out Dan's blog for more on the poetry scene here in Albany. Dan also has a post about a recent visit from Charlie Rossiter (of the Three Guys from Albany). Labels: Dan Wilcox, open mic, poetry events, Three Guys From Albany
 The next Albany Poets Presents (Tuesday, November 6, starting at 8:00PM) at Valentines will be an open mic with a bit of a twist.
Last month Mary Panza laid down the challenge...perform the best dramatic reading of the worst song lyrics and you win a featured reading at the Poets Speak Loud open mic at the Lark Tavern in the future, even if you have already featured. I then gave an example of what we are looking for by reading the lyrics to the extremely famous song, Escape by Rupert Holmes: I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long.
Like a worn-out recording, of a favorite song.
So while she lay there sleeping, I read the paper in bed.
And in the personals column, there was this letter I read: "If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
I'm the lady you've looked for, write to me, and escape." If you do not have any bad lyrics with you on Novemeber 6, don't worry, you can still read your own poetry through out the evening at the open mic. Remember that the December edition of Albany Poets Presents is the Second Annual Airing of Grievances and Feats of Strength. Stay tuned for more details on the "most innovative, interesting, and irrelevant annual event at a poetry and spoken word open mic in upstate New York". Labels: Albany Poets, open mic, spoken word
 Behind the Egg: A Reading Series returns on Saturday, October 27 at 4:00PM with Aaron Belz, Peter Davis, Daniel Nester, and Michael Schiavo
Aaron Belz writes poetry in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. His work has appeared in Boston Review, Fence, Painted Bride Quarterly, Black Clock, and other places, and his first full-length book, The Bird Hoverer, was published by BlazeVOX in 2007. Another of his manuscripts, Clementines, was selected as a runner-up for the 2006 Marsh Hawk Press contest by Denise Duhamel, who writes: "Aaron Belz is a gravely hilarious poet . . . his ferocious intelligence, his love of glitz, and his wry take on relationships (both human and animal) are irresistible. Belz's voice is bold, wise, inimitable." Peter Davis' book of poems is Hitler's Mustache. He edited Poet's Bookshelf: Contemporary Poets on Books that Shaped Their Art. His poems have appeared in places like Octopus, Court Green, McSweeney's, and La Petite Zine. His music project, Short Hand, is available through Collectible Escalators records. He lives in Muncie, Indiana, with his sweet wife and sweet children. Find more about him as well as his other projects at www.artisnecessary.com. Daniel Nester, along with Erik Sweet, is co-curator of Behind the Egg: A Reading Series. He is the author of God Save My Queen: A Tribute (Soft Skull, 2003) and God Save My Queen II: The Show Must Go On (2004), as well as The History of My World Tonight (BlazeVox 2006). His work has appeared recently in The Best Creative Nonfiction, Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock 'n Roll, 32 Poems, Gulf Coast, among other
places. He writes essays and articles for Poets & Writers, Bookslut, Time Out New York, and PoetryFoundation.org. He is assistant professor of English at The College of Saint Rose in Albany. Find too much about him at www.danielnester.com. Michael Schiavo's poetry and nonfiction have appeared in The Yale Review, Tin House, Seneca Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Believer, LIT, 1913: A Journal of Forms, and Forklift, Ohio, among other publications. He is a contributing editor to CUE: A Journal of Prose Poetry and is currently the Writing Coordinator at the Vermont Studio Center. Behind the Egg: A Reading Series takes place at The Capital District Federation of Ideas, 383.5 Madison Avenue, Albany and is hosted by Erik Sweet and Daniel Nester. For more information on the series, check out their website at www.unpleasanteventschedule.com/behindtheegg/ Labels: Behind the Egg, poetry events
 We are back with the Dan Wilcox Poetry Open Mic Commentary Round-Up. This week Dan did not comment on any open mics, but he did give his views of the new Behind the Egg reading at the Federation of Ideas and the Banned Books reading at the Albany Public Library.
An annual event at the Albany Public Library, co-sponsored with New York Civil Liberties Union, Capital Region Chapter. John Cirrin, the Public Information Officer for the Library introduced Joanna Palladino who put the event together & was the M.C., with some opening remarks by Melanie Trimble, the NYCLU-CRC Executive Director. As usual, readers from the community picked their favorite of books that have been banned/challenged over the years. Many of these were books for children & young adults. Not quite literally behind the Egg, this series began it's new season with 3 powerful poets from the area, Randall Horton, Cara Benson & Carol Graser. The hosts are Erik Sweet & Daniel Nester As always, be sure to check out Dan’s blog often for more commentaries of local poetry events, readings, and yes, open mics. Labels: Behind the Egg, Dan Wilcox, poetry events
 Deepening Our Connections Through Poetry is a new workshop series that will be taking place on Tuesday evenings from October 23 - November 20, 5:30-7:00 p.m. in Saratoga Springs led by Susan Jefts, MS and published poet.
A group for exploring, through poetry, the depth and beauty of autumn, both in the external landscape and our own internal landscapes. What do we keep returning to? What is essential in our lives? We will explore the words, rhythms and images of a new poem each week, accompanied by music, and delve into these and other questions. Appropriate for both new and experienced writers, and for poets and prose writers alike. There will be a chance to write each week. The cost for this workshop series is $20 for each session. Call 232-6776 to register or for questions. Also, be sure to check out www.saratogapoetryroom.com for more comments about previous workshops and other information. Labels: poetry, workshops, writing
 Welcome back to the Dan Wilcox Open Mic Commentary Round-Up. This is the third edition of the round-up that brings all of Dan’s commentaries from his blog together in one place. This time around we have two open mics and the first Frequency North of the new season.
Albany Poets Presents, October 2 One often wonders whether this open mic really happens or just exists in the fantasy of alcohol & memory. Once some years ago I read a poem here & a lady I had invited told me later that's when she fell in love with me. On some nights the-nameless-we just sat around & told outrageous stories & bought each other beers. On the Road is filled with such lies & similar fabrications. "October in the railroad earth..." Caffe Len, October 3 I've realized that "October is the Columbus-day month breeding racism & death in the continent..." so I have started including Tom Nattell's "Columbus Fantasies" in my readings. These were poems written in 1992 to commemorate the Indians discovering an Italian mercenary for Spain landing on their shore. After doing a new poem of my own, "Starting the Wine," I did #23. Frequency North, October 4 This is the third year of this reading series at St. Rose, run by new poppa Daniel Nester. This year the readings have been moved from St. Joseph's Hall auditorium, with the big stage & curtains, to the Library. Same number of people showed up, just looked more crowded. I mean if the same 40 people showed up at the Knickerbocker Arena -- I mean Pepsi Arena -- whoops, no, Times-Union Center -- folks would say, "there was nobody there." Like skinny girls in tight pants. As always, be sure to check out Dan’s blog often for these commentaries and poetry from Dan and other area poets. Labels: Caffe Lena, Dan Wilcox, Frequency North, open mic, poets
Here is a great resource for poets and spoken word artists in the Western Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut areas. The site is updated every week by Lori Desrosiers with a complete (and I mean complete) listing of the poetry open mics, readings, and events throughout New England. Be sure to check it out if you are heading east and want to go out to a reading or two. Labels: open mic, poetry events
 I came across this blog post this morning with some tips for beginning poets and how to not jump in the art. I personally like tip number six:
"When a magazine rejects your submission, screw it. And screw the editor, too. They're out to get you, jealous freaks. Send them a piece of your mind, find other magazines, and submit to them only. Magazine editors are, after all, failed writers. They don't want to see anyone succeed where they didn't. Watch out for them." A pretty humorous look at how to "make it" in the poetry business. Click here to read the article. Labels: poetry, writing
 Live From The Living Room, a featured reading series with an open mic afterwards is held on the second Wednesday of every month at the Capital District Gay & Lesbian Community Center, 332 Hudson Avenue, Albany, NY. The next reading is October 10, 2007 featuring poet and Metroland scribe Miriam Axel-Lute.
Miriam is a performance-oriented poet from Albany, NY. Her poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies. She has written 2 chapbooks, Souls Like Mockingbirds and Packing To Stay. Miriam lives with her wife, her husband and her daughter. Sign up is at 7:00PM with a 7:30 start time with host Don Levy. There is a $2.00 suggested donation. For more info call 518-462-6138. This is a straight-friendly reading. Labels: Miriam Axel-Lute, open mic, poetry events
 The Adirondack Center for Writing has had a VERY busy season. Check out these upcoming programs. This fall is PACKED with outstanding literary events, and taking place all over the region. Visit our website, www.adirondackcenterforwriting.org, for even more listings.
October 14, 2007 - The Chronicle Book Fair
Annual book fair featuring regional authors, readings and panels. (Great opportunity for published authors to have a tabletop and sell their books!) ACW member, Kate Messner will be there signing her new book, Spitfire and ACW member, Ruth Lamb will also be there signing copies of, At the End of the Road: Reflections on Life in an Adirondack Valley At the Queensbury Hotel, Glens Falls, NY. For more information, contact Cathy DeDe, Arts Editor, The Chronicle. Tel: (518) 792-1126. October 19-21, 2007 - Facing Pages Literary Conference
Join the New York State Literary Community for a weekend retreat in Blue Mountain Lake. Every year the New York State Council on the Arts and several New York State literary organizations join forces to present an outstanding conference geared towards literary presenters, presses, writers, and teachers. This year the conference is being held in our own back yard-- Blue Mountain Lake! For a full conference brochure visit www.littap.org. Registration deadline is October 5th. The conference is free for locals; the only costs are for meals and lodging if you need it, but you must register so we have an accurate headcount. October 25, 2007 - NaNoWriMo in the Adirondacks
The Second Annual NaNoWriMo Kickoff Celebration is being held on Thursday, October 25, from 6-7 pm at the Town of Johnsburg Library on Main St. in North Creek. NaNoWriMo (pronounced Nan-Oh-Rye-Mo), is celebrated each year in the month of November. NaNoWriMo challenges each participant to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. It's the fun, zany, and crazy literary sensation that's sweeping the globe. Do you think you don't have time? Then you're the perfect candidate for NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo gathers adults, children, and teens in a supportive community to share the joys and agonies of the novel-writing process. Join us in North Creek as we kick-off our second November of non-stop novel writing, fellowship, and fun. Write-ins and read-ins will be scheduled during November at cafes, the town library, bookstores, and in area restaurants, wherever madly scribbling writers are tolerated. For more information, call Judith Harper at 518-251-3006 and visit the official NaNoWriMo website http://www.nanowrimo.org November 3, 2007 - ACW's Annual Publishing Conference
This year the conference will be held at Silver Bay, on Lake George just south of Ticonderoga. This popular day-long event features lectures, workshops, and manuscript critiques with editors and authors of both nonfiction and fiction. Visit out website, www.adirondackcenterforwriting.org, for a complete schedule and presenter bios. Contact ACW to reserve your spot today. Submission deadline for manuscript critiques is October 18th! November 29, 2007 - Andrea Barrett
The Adirondack Center for Writing and Paul Smith's College present, Andrea Barrett, author of several novels, including Ship Fever, which won the National Book Award and Servants of the Map, which was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. Her newest book, The Air We Breathe, is set entirely in Saranac Lake. For more information on the Center, go to their website or call 518-327-6278 Labels: poetry events, workshops
 After the Banned Books event at the library, be sure to head down to Madison Ave and check out what is looking like a great poetry reading at the CDFI.
Behind the Egg: A Reading Series at The Capital District Federation of Ideas, 383.5 Madison Avenue, Albany returns on Saturday, October 6 at 4:00PM with Cara Benson, Carol Graser, and Randall Horton. This series is curated by Daniel Nester and Erik Sweet. Cara Benson currently believes in the accessibility of the inaccessible poem. Her work has, is, or will appear in 88, pom2, HOW2, EOAGH, Sentence, and BoogCity. Her wee-e-chapbook "Bound" is forthcoming from Dusie. She is editing a collection of writing for Chain Magazine, and her "Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation" is forthcoming from BookThug. Benson makes poems every Tuesday afternoon with male inmates at Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility in upstate NY. Carol Graser hosts a monthly poetry series at Saratoga Spring's legendary Caffe Lena and has performed her work at various events and venues around NYS. Her work has been published in many literary journals including Chaffin, artisan, Berkeley Poetry Review and Grasslands.She is the author of The Wild Twist of Their Stems (Foothills Publishing 2007). Find her blogging at MotherVerse. Randall Horton, originally from Birmingham, Alabama, resides in Albany, New York. He is a former editor of Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas (Fall 2005) and co-editor of Fingernails Across the Chalkboard (Third World Press, 2006). He received his undergraduate education at both Howard University and The University of the District of Columbia (B.A. English). He has a MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Poetry from Chicago State University, and is now a doctoral student at SUNY Albany. He received an Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation Summer Scholarship to attend Fine Arts Workcenter at Provincetown in 2005. He is also a Cave Canem fellow. Labels: Behind the Egg, Carol Graser, poetry events, poets
 Frequency North is kicking off its third season tonight at Saint Rose with poet, editor, and critic David Lehman.
Lehman will read at The College of Saint Rose Thursday, October 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the College's Neil Hellman Library, 392 Western Ave., Albany. Copies of Lehman's works will be available for purchase and signing. Frequency North is sponsored by The College of Saint Rose School of Arts and Humanities and the English, Spectrum and Identity student organizations and is free and open to the public. For more information, contact series coordinator Daniel Nester at 518-454-2812 or nesterd@strose.edu. Lehman has authored several collections of poems, most recently When a Woman Loves a Man (Scribner, 2005) and Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man (with James Cummins, Soft Skull Press, 2005). His books of criticism include The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets (Anchor, 1999), which the New York Public Library named a "Book to Remember 1999." He is series editor of The Best American Poetry, which he initiated in 1988, and is general editor of the University of Michigan Press's Poets on Poetry Series. In addition, Lehman is editor of a new edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry, a one-volume comprehensive anthology of poems from Anne Bradstreet to the present. Lehman's honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award. For more information and a complete schedule, visit the series' website at www.FrequencyNorth.com. All readings are free and open to the public. Labels: Frequency North, poetry events, poets
 Tomorrow night, the first Wednesday of the month, Caffe Lena presents its Poetry Open Mic night with featured poet Michael Czarnecki.
This open mic is hosted by Carol Graser. There is a $2.00 admission. Sign up at 7:00PM, the reading starts at 7:30PM. Caffe Lena is located at 47 Phila St, Saratoga Springs. Michael Czarnecki is the founder of Foothills Publishing, which he began in 1986 for the purpose of getting into print the words of poets whose only outlets were readings or in the occasional magazine. Since then, Foothills Publishing has released more than 250 chapbooks or books. As a poet, Michael has given over 200 featured readings across the country in venues as varied as wine festivals, colleges and coffeehouses. As a prolific poet, publisher, oral memoirist and encourager, Michael lives simply with his family in the hills of central New York. The Echo Of What Has Passed T'ao Ch'ien would understand.
I sit drinking wine
chanting poems
dreaming of mountains.
Bills pile high at the door.
White hairs infiltrate my beard.
Daughter approaches womanhood.
Young son no longer crawls.
Late Autumn, already snow
has covered the ground.
Sipping, wine, I shiver
as a chill breeze
caresses me from behind. Labels: Caffe Lena, open mic, poetry events
 Teresa Costa sent us information on the open mics that she is hosting this month in Kingston. If you are in the area, be sure to check out these great events.
Wednesday, October 3 at 7:30PM at the Muddy Cup, 516 Broadway in Kingston with featured poets Barbara Boncek and Donald Lev. This reading is hosted by Teresa and Shirley Powell Thursday, October 11 at 7:00PM at the Bohemian Book Bin, Kings Mall, Rt 9W in Kingston with featured poets Gloria Bernstein and Roberta Gould. This event is also hosted by Teresa Costa. The open mic portion of the night is limited to five minutes. There is a $3.00 suggested donation. Refreshments will be available. For more information on these poetry readings, email teresacosta101@msn.com Labels: open mic, poetry events
 THIS JUST IN, The newly re-started School of Night is on hiatus. The scheduled poetry and spoken word open mic for this coming Thursday night at Ballingers has been cancelled until further notice.
Host R.M. Engelhardt says that the long time open mic will indeed start up again, so stay tuned to albanypoets.com for more information as it is released. While you are waiting for "School" to start again, you can head over to the Poetry Calendar and check out the other poetry open mics, readings, and events that are going on in the area. Labels: open mic, poetry events, School of Night
 Welcome back to our second edition of the Dan Wilcox Open Mic Commentary Round-Up, where we list the most recent poetry open mic and reading commentaries from Dan's blog.
Third Thursday Poetry Night, September 20 Another third Thursday at the Social Justice Center, with your fantastic (objectively speaking) host, Dan Wilcox -- hey, that's me. And the muse was the late Grace Paley -- "It is the responsibility of society to let the poet be a poet..." ("Responsibility"). Poets Speak Loud, September 24 Twice in one week the featured poet doesn't make it to his/her reading -- global warming or the war in Iraq -- or just the Full Moon? Robert Milby had car trouble last Wednesday & Barbara Vink had pneumonia tonight. I'm guessing that both will be rescheduled eventually. So the host, Mary Panza read Barb's poem "The tavern keeper" from her new chapbook Heat Wave (Benevolent Bird Press, PO Box 522, Delmar, NY 12054 -- handsewn, individual wood block print covers, edition of 100 copies, from Alan Casline). Be sure to check out Dan's blog often for more commentary on the upstate New York poetry scene. Labels: Dan Wilcox, open mic, poets
 We hope you had a great weekend and were able to rest up because October is promising to be another great month of poetry.
Tonight is Albany Poets Presents at Valentines, 17 New Scotland Avenue, Albany NY. 7:30 sign-up, 8:00PM start. Hosted by our own Fancy Leader, Thom Francis. Wednesday is Cafe Lena in Saratoga. Thursday is vOLUME at Prof Java in Colonie. Wednesday October 10th is Live From The Living Room at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center in Albany. *This is a straight friendly reading.* Friday, October 12th, 7:00PM, UAG Gallery on Lark Street in Albany, we are proud to present Allen Fisher. For more info on the event go to www.albanypoets.com Yikes, that is just the first two weeks of October. Remember to pace yourselves through poetry. Labels: Albany Poets, open mic, poetry events
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